Ocean Visions Leadership
Leadership Team
The Leadership Team is an advisory body assembled to activate and mobilize the Ocean Visions Network. The team sets the overall strategic vision for the Network, establishes priorities, reviews progress and products, and facilitates collaboration and communication with external parties.
Brad Ack
Chief Executive Officer at Ocean Visions
Clark Alexander
Director of the University of Georgia’s Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Doug Bartlett
Professor of Marine Microbiology and the Deputy Director for Research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Annalisa Bracco
Associate Chair for Research and Professor of Oceanography and Climate in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech
Jennifer Dianto Kemmerly
Vice President of Global Oceans at Monterey Bay Aquarium
Emanuele Di Lorenzo
Chairman & Co-Founder of Ocean Visions and Professor at Brown University
Al Dove
Vice President of Science and Education at Georgia Aquarium
Emmett Duffy
Director of the Smithsonian’s Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network
Daniela V. Fernandez
Founder and CEO of Sustainable Ocean Alliance
John E. Fernández
Professor and Director, Environmental Solutions Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paul Holthus
Founding President and CEO of the World Ocean Council
Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez
Professor of Biological Oceanography and chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology at UCSB
Jeff Larsen
Site Lead, Creative Destruction Lab-Atlantic
Fiorenza Micheli
Co-Director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions and of Hopkins Marine Station, and the Professor of Marine Science at Stanford
Gary Mitchum
Professor of Physical Oceanography and the Associate Dean in the College of Marine Science at the University of South Florida
Kate Moran
President & CEO, Ocean Networks Canada
Rick Murray
Deputy Director and Vice President for Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Millicent Pitts
Chief Executive Officer and Director, The Ocean Exchange
Chris Scholin
President and CEO, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Eric Siegel
Chief Innovation Officer, Ocean Frontier Institute
Mark Shimamoto
Director, Global Outreach Programs, American Geophysical Union
Dawn Wright
Chief Scientist of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
Rohit Shukla
Founder and CEO, Larta
Anna Zivian
Senior Research Fellow at Ocean Conservancy
Board of Directors
Paul Bunje
Co-Founder and President of Conservation XLabs
Emanuele Di Lorenzo
Chairman & Co-Founder of Ocean Visions and Professor at Brown University
Joe Handy
CEO of Clearwater Aquarium
Nancy Knowlton
Sant Chair in Marine Science Emerita, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Fiorenza Micheli
Co-Director of Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions and of Hopkins Marine Station, and the David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science at Stanford University